Greenville Museum of Art

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Greenville Museum of Art proudly welcomes the Opening Exhibition of the WSNC 63rd Annual Juried Exhibition on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM. The show will continue through December 13, 2008 with approximately 70 original watercolor renderings from across the state.

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Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee Gallery
Francis Speight and his wife Sarah Blakeslee are two of the most important artists who lived and worked in North Carolina during the 20th century. Speight was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, and Blakeslee grew up in Washington, D.C. They studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and embraced the school’s academic realism.

Speight taught painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1925 until 1961. In 1936 he married Blakeslee, who had been one of his students at the academy’s Country School at Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. In 1961 they moved to Greenville, North Carolina, where Francis became the artist-in-residence at East Carolina College. Sarah painted and taught adult classes at local art centers.

The Greenville Museum of Art is pleased to honor these two important American painters who called Greenville, North Carolina, home for so many years.

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